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ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training
arXiv:2609.00188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation faces a fundamental scaling challenge: robust generalization demands broad physical experience, yet action-labeled robot trajectories are expensive to …
Elite-Weighted Supervised Fine-tuning for Goal-Directed Molecular Optimization
arXiv:2609.00189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-directed optimization is essential for steering molecular generators to propose candidates with desired properties. However, it is often implemented with policy-gradie…
Assessing Suicide Risk in Arabic Crisis Helpline Calls: A Comparison of Arabic and English Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.00191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crisis helplines assess suicide risk through structured interviews, a process that is slow and dependent on operator training and workload. Natural language processing coul…
LLM-Driven Autonomous Vehicles Inherit Human Driver Biases in Pedestrian Yielding: Results and Implications From A New Benchmark
arXiv:2609.00192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public trust in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) may depend not only on technical success but also on the fairness of their decision making. While a recent trend in AV research in…
ReDeck: Step-Level Render-Grounded Refinement for Document-to-Slide Generation
arXiv:2609.00194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Document-to-slide generation is challenging because slides are dense editable artifacts that require both faithful content selection and precise spatial layout. Recent slid…
Cyber-Physical Digital Factory Architecture as the Enabler of Disembodied Work
arXiv:2609.00195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital Twins (DTs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies have significantly advanced manufacturing digitalization. However, …
WHALE: A Simple Recipe for Joint Harness-Weight Optimization
arXiv:2609.00196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent performance depends jointly on the model parameters and the executable harness code that manages context and control flow. Optimizing either component in isolation ca…
Social bots weaken activist cohesion
arXiv:2609.00197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social bots now make up a substantial share of online political communication, where they are studied mainly as producers of misinformation and amplified content. Far less …
A Lagrangian View of Flow Matching
arXiv:2609.00198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern explicit-time generative models, such as Flow Matching [Lipman et al., 2023] and Rectified Flow [Liu et al., 2023], are typically derived top-down via Optimal Transp…
Exploiting the Benefits of V2B Application on Peak Shaving of Data Center Loads
arXiv:2609.00204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The accelerated growth in data center projects has introduced a demand-driven bottleneck throughout power grids and contributed to a substantial increase in carbon emission…
BlockMGARD: Accelerating Adaptive Scientific Data Reduction with Region-of-Interest Error Control on GPUs
arXiv:2609.00205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing scale of scientific data makes lossy compression essential for reducing data volume under controllable error. Transformation-based compressors using multilevel …
Distributed Implicit Harm: A Compositional Safety Blind Spot in MLLM-Based Video Moderation
arXiv:2609.00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their growing use in video moderation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit a compositional safety blind spot: videos composed of seemingly benign compo…
AI Should Not Only Be Helpful. It Should Be Contingent. Artificial Intimacy, Sycophancy, and the Future of Social Learning
arXiv:2609.00211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in everyday social environments, where it functions as both an informational tool and a source of interperso…
Uncovering and Mitigating Aggregation-Induced Reward Hacking in Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.00213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning fine-tuning of large language models increasingly adopts multiple reward dimensions, including verifiable rules, task-specific evaluators, and learne…
Solving the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations on Oriented Curved Surfaces Discretized by Point Clouds
arXiv:2609.00216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a meshfree numerical solver for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on oriented curved surfaces that are represented by surface point clouds. On curved su…
Uncertainty-Aware Parameter Estimation for Condition Monitoring of Power Converters
arXiv:2609.00218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter estimation is widely used for condition monitoring of power converters, but most existing methods provide only point estimates and therefore cannot quantify wheth…
A Dichotomy for Complex Boolean Holant with Binary Disequality
arXiv:2609.00219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove a complexity dichotomy for Boolean Holant problems defined by arbitrary finite sets of algebraic complex-valued signatures when binary disequality is available. Th…
LLM-as-a-Demographic: Whom Sociodemographic Prompting Helps, and Whom It Hurts
arXiv:2609.00222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges for subjective tasks, where annotators disagree and the relevant question is not only how accurate a judge is, …
QTEA: Ternary LLMs with Sparse Residual Salient Weight and By-Column Optimization
arXiv:2609.00224v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) can alleviate the computational burden of serving large language models (LLMs) at scale. However, existing PTQ methods often fa…
ConvDeck: Conversational Paper-to-Slide Generation via Stage-Specific User Feedback
arXiv:2609.00226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic academic paper-to-slide generation is inherently iterative, because creating an effective presentation requires repeated cycles of generation, critique, and revis…